On Jun 11, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Nikunj Mehta wrote:
>
> Hi Art, Charles,
>
> We have developed a technology, called AtomDB, at Oracle for
> transparent, local access to Web application resources when not
> connected to a network. This is one of the most frequently requested
> features on our mobile applications, which until now has required a
> non-Web application solution. Oracle is interested in developing Web
> applications for mobile and non-mobile environments that are
> resilient to network unreliability.
>
> In the process of developing AtomDB, Oracle has analyzed various
> challenges in off line data access. We realize that the Webapps WG
> is interested in this area and Oracle is willing to contribute
> resources to advance specifications that improve application
> robustness to network conditions. We have a specification that we
> could share with the WebApps WG, if there is interest.
>
> I look forward to what the working group has to say on this.
HTML5 includes mechanisms for offline applications and offline data.
The application cache is implemented in the Firefox 3 Release
Candidate and the Safari 4 Developer Preview:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#offline
Database storage is in Safari 3.1 and newer:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#sql
Google Gears also has features similar to both of these and I believe
those features are planned to converge with the standard.
Regards,
Maciej